We know that in modern medicine that people can come in
contact with the germs that cause the flu and not get it
due to a good immune system. Why is the flu season during
the cold weather? What is the fastest way to get over the
flu and how do you avoid them? What do colds have to do
with the cold weather?
If your immune system is strong enough then you will not
get the flu. When a person's health is too low, the body's
intelligence tries to raise it. Its job is to constantly
try to make the person healthy and fit, not fat. Its only
goal is the best health possible. But people have many
other priorities like entertainment, fun, being, getting a
lo done, making money and being admired.
So when your health (immune system) drops too low, the
body's intelligence tries to force you to do something
about it. How healthy your immune system is, is
proportional to how clean or free of toxins the body is.
These toxins include the body's metabolic waste. Your body
is constantly eliminating toxins but sometimes it gets
backed up. Things that help the body detoxify are heavy
sweating caused by heat or exercise, fasting, sleeping and
eating a healthy diet. The opposite things, like lack of
sleep, causes the body to get backed up with these toxins.
During cold weather people get less sunlight which means
less vitamin D that is good for the immune system. Also
people sweat a lot less during the cold weather so saunas
and exercise can help create more sweating. The skin is one
of the 4 excretory organs of the body which also include
the lungs, liver and kidneys. The colon is an organ of
elimination. It is not an excretory organ since it is
outside the body proper. That is medical jargon (2: the
technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special
activity or group).
With Bikrams Hot Yoga, you do yoga exercise in a room that
is over 100 degrees Fahrenheit and this causes you to sweat
a great deal. Americans have a tendency to over eat and
under sleep especially around the holidays. I saw on the
forums before Thanksgiving that more people are asking
about what to do about a cold.
The body's intelligence allows you to get sick so you will
do the things that you were unwilling to do, like taking
off work, eating less and sleeping more. Then after the
flu, you are healthier than you were before the flu. If you
do not do these things then the flu can last a long time.
The fastest way to get over a cold or the flu is fasting,
according to Mark Twain and I. That causes the body to
detoxify at the fastest rate possible. The book,
Prescription for Natural Healing (by James Balch M.D. and
Phyllis Balch CNC), says "When you feel a cold or illness
coming on or are just depressed-- fast!" If you can't fast,
then just eat only fruit, especially fruits high in vitamin
C, until you are better. Fruits require the least amount of
digestive energy. You already know about getting plenty of
rest and drinking enough fluids.
There is an another type of fasting that has become
popular. Since it is easier and supplies vitamin C in a
food form it may be better for colds and flus. When it
comes to vitamin pills, try to avoid consuming them. They
are not foods. Studies show that they act very differently
inside the body than vitamins in foods. Since vitamin C
pills are so cheap (about 8 cents each) and each one
(500mg) contains the amount of vitamin C in 7 whole
oranges, then no one should never get a cold or the flu.
But the vitamin C in one whole orange is better for you
than 100 vitamin C pills.
Try to buy organically grown produce until The USA becomes
as civilized as Russia where it is against the law (a
crime) to sell anything but organically grown produce. This
alternate fast is discussed on the fasting webpage. It is
called Lemonade Diet, Master Cleanse or the Master Cleanser
Lemonade Fast. Lemons contain a lot of vitamin C like other
citrus fruits. Copyright 2007 by Chuck Bluestein
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Chuck Bluestein is a nutritionist, herbalist and a fasting
expert. His website has information on weight loss, healthy
diet, fasting, neck and back pain, natural cures, pure
water and how to be happier. http://www.phifoundation.org
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